What happens when the Govt. Under Secretary for Homelessness & Rough Sleeping is herself a landlord?
Well, the answer is she continues to act as a Landlord; serving notice on tenants that a lease would not be renewed so that the rent could be raised & the property re-listed.... now this is not an uncommon tactic, but its also what is stoking rent inflation (and therefore indirectly homelessness).
The problem with our political class in a nutshell; hypocrisy!
So Rushanara Ali has resigned with the usual letter to the PM saying she recognises she has become a distraction for the work of Govt.... and that she believes she followed all legal rules.
Well, I'm not sure anyone accused her of acting illegally, more that she was just acting like a landlord while holding the portfolio for homelessness - the accusation was more of hypocrisy not criminality!
@ChrisMayLA6 Lots of people are landlords as a result of (the previous) Labour government policies which clobbered pretty well all other methods of arranging that you could eat when you got too old and ill to work.
It seems unreasonable that someone who happens to be a landlord, doing exactly what the government nudged them to do, can't then take part in politics.
AFAIR, the enshittification of occupational pension schemes happened mostly under the Tory/LibDem coalition, not under the previous Labour govt.
@only_ohm @ChrisMayLA6 The 50p, the ACT raid, the collapse of trust in the financial sector were all under Labour.
On your specific point, I agree that the closing of final salary pension schemes has been presided over by all governments. But they were a myth anyway for all but the tiny number of people (some public sector employees excluded) who remained in the same scheme throughout their working lives.
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